The Jena Painter was an

ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic peri ...

vase painter, active in

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around 400 BC. He mainly painted '' kylikes'' in the red-figure technique. His stylistic and chronological place was first determined by the British Classical archaeologist,

John D. Beazley Sir John Davidson Beazley, (; 13 September 1885 – 6 May 1970) was a British classical archaeologist and art historian, known for his classification of Attic vases by artistic style. He was Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at the Un ...

. Beazley chose the conventional name "Jena Painter" because a large proportion of the artist's surviving works were in the possession of

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. The majority of his 91 known vessels were discovered in the Kerameikos, the potters' quarter of ancient Athens, in 1892. Many of his vessels were exported, for example to

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and North Africa. The Jena Painter appears to have had two assistants whose work is described as style B and style C. The Jena Painter would paint the internal images of bowls, and the style B assistant their outsides. The work of the style C assistant is known only from, bowl ''skyphoi'' and footless bowls. In contrast to his assistants' rather casual drawings, the Jena Painter is distinguished by his fine and careful drawing style and the vividness of his compositions. The Q Painter and the

Diomedes Painter Diomedes (Jones, Daniel; Roach, Peter, James Hartman and Jane Setter, eds. ''Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary''. 17th edition. Cambridge UP, 2006.) or Diomede (; grc-gre, Διομήδης, Diomēdēs, "god-like cunning" or "advised by ...

worked in the same workshop as the Jena Painter.

Bibliography

. ''Attic Red Figure Vase Painters''. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. *Werner Müller. ''Keramik des Altertums. Vasen aus der Sammlung Antiker Kleinkunst Jena''. Leipzig, 1963. * John Boardman. ''Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Classical Period''. London, 1989, p. 169f. *Verena Paul-Zinserling. ''Der Jena-Maler und sein Kreis: zur Ikonologie einer attischen Schalenwerkstatt um 400 v. Chr.'' Mainz 1994. *Lehrstuhl für Klassische Archäologie und Sammlung Antiker Kleinkunst der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Angelika Geyer (ed.)): ''Der Jenaer Maler: eine Töpferwerkstatt im klassischen Athen.'' Wiesbaden 1996. . {{Authority control 5th-century BC births 4th-century BC deaths Ancient Greek vase painters Anonymous artists of antiquity 5th-century BC Athenians Year of birth unknown